Pumpkin Photo Inspiration Challenge

Welcome back to another photo inspiration challenge. I took this photo at a local garden center called Under the Sun. The pumpkins, mums, and pansies are arranged on a few bales of straw. The sky was nice and blue the day I took the photo.  You can use this photo for color or object inspiration and we hope you will play along in the challenge. We can't wait to see your creations.

 

We have a guest designer, Dora, providing you with some extra inspiration for this challenge. Her blog is called Especially For You Cards and she was the winner of our Monkey Business theme challenge last month.

Inspirational Card Designs:

 

Dora's Card

 

Erin's Card

 

Andrea's Card

 

 

Challenge Guidelines:

1. Create a New card using the challenge theme, no linking to old posts. 
2. Only one entry per blog address.
3. This is a card only challenge.
4. You must use a stamp, either rubber or digital.
5. You can combine this challenge with other challenges.
6. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to this challenge. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission.
7. All brands of stamping products are welcome.
8. HAVE FUN!!!

Entries not meeting the challenge theme and guidelines will be removed. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding.

 

Challenge Prize, Reason to Smile stamp set and 6 x 6 papers.

 

 The challenge will run for 12 days, 11/8/2013 - 11/19/2013.



Gone Batty Challenge Winner

Good morning! It was so much fun to see all the different entries for the Gone Batty challenge. There was a lot of variety to choose from which made picking a winner really hard. A big congratulations to....

MommyScraps from the According to Jane Austen Blog

 

 

 

The Batgirl and Cat Woman digi is fantastic and was a creative approach to the challenge theme. I will send you an email with your prize code to Bugaboo Digi Stamps. Thanks to Bugaboo for sponsoring the Gone Batty challenge.

 

Come back tomorrow for a new photo challenge! Have a wonderful day!!!

4 x 7 Thanksgiving Card

This afternoon I decided to shake things up and make a different sized card. It's been awhile since a made a 4 x 7 card, so that's what I did. This 4 x 7 Thanksgiving Card is a casual design. I used the Truly Grateful stamp set by Stampin' Up! and a scallop die by Spellbinders. The twine is from American Crafts and I added a few Candy Dots by Stampin' Up! The colours are full of Autumn tones using Soft Suede, Natural, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze and a small amount of Daffodil Delight ink for the wheat. I decided to stamp the inside of the card with the sentiment instead of the front, just to be different. One of my favorite things about 4 x 7 cards is I always have envelopes for this size. Well, that's about it. Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!

My 4 x 7 Thanksgiving Card is entered into the following challenges:

• Lady Anne's: Last Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations: Autumn Colours
• Twisted Tuesday: Free For All!
• Crafty Boots: Autumn

Thanksgiving Card with Deer

When making cards for my family I try to use images and colors I know they will like. This Thanksgiving Card with Deer was made with my cousin and his family in mind. He is an avid deer hunter and good ol' country boy. I tried to keep this card as manly as possible. All supplies for this card are from Stampin' Up! The image is from the retired Noble Deer stamp set and I heat embossed it using Early Espresso emboss powder. I used a blender pen and stampin' pads to color in the image. The paper and ink colors used are Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Sky and Whisper White. The patterned paper is from the Sweater Weather dsp and I used the woodgrain embossing folder and burlap ribbon to add texture to the card. My big regret is adding stitching to the side of the card. I should have just stitched across the top of the burlap and quit. Oh, well... I'll try not to obsess about it. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful night and pleasant tomorrow.

My Thanksgiving Card with Deer is entered into the following challenges:

• The Paper Players: Wildlife
• Robyn's Fetish: Thanksgiving
• Make It Monday: Anything Goes    

Thoughts of You Card

**For the Gone Batty Challenge please click here or scroll down.** Thanks!

 

Good morning! This last week was really busy for me and I had no time to even step foot in my craft room. So last night I did some late night crafting and created this Thoughts of You Card. It was nice to start the weekend off with some creative therapy. There were several challenges that inspired this card and one sad goodbye to Cath Edvalson who is leaving Moxie Fab World and Paper Crafts Magazine. There is a Cards for Cath link up going on right now in honor of her last day. I'll really miss the Tuesday Triggers and daily inspiration that Cath has provided over the years and she will definitely be missed. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

My Thoughts of You Card is entered into the following challenges:

• Flutter By Wednesday: Any Winged Creature
• Shopping Our Stash: Stitching
• Crafting for all Seasons: Autumn Colours
• Perfect Sentiment: Fall or Halloween
• Flourishes, Timeless Tuesday: Plaid or Houndstooth
• Brown Sugar: Things with Wings

Thoughts of You Card Supplies*:

• Paper: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, and Very Vanilla Cardstock, Sweater Weather designer series paper.
• Stamps: Polka Dot Pieces
• Inks: Classic Stampin' pads in Chocolate Chip, Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango, Stampin' Write marker in Old Olive.
• Other Stuff: Bird Builder punch, 1 1/4" scallop circle punch, itty bitty shapes circle punch, sewing machine, brown thread, and stampin' dimensionals.

*All paper crafting products by Stampin' Up!

Magnificent Maple Grateful Card

This evening I was reminded by my friend Jessi's card post that the deadline for the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World is midnight tonight. It worked out nicely because I really like the sketch at The Paper Players and I used it to make this Magnificent Maple Grateful Card. I've used a mixture of different patterned papers and they're all from different companies, My Mind's Eye (big woodgrain), American Crafts (light woodgrain), and K & Company (plaid). The Truly Grateful sentiment stamp and the Magnificent Maple stamp are both by Stampin' Up! Before I stamped the maple leaf, I sponged Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, and Cherry Cobbler ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock. I inked the maple stamp with Cajun Craze and stamped onto the sponged cardstock. Then I fussy cut the maple leaf and adhered it to a 2.5" circle. The accent banners are made from Cherry Cobbler cardstock and the final touch were three Old Olive Candy Dots. I'm also linking this card to the Anything Goes challenge at Make It Monday. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Trigger Photo

 

Gone Batty Challenge

Gone Batty Theme Challenge (use Bats or Birds)

Welcome back to another challenge here at Savvy Handmade Cards. Our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Digi Stamps and they are providing the winner of the challenge a very generous $21.00 gift certificate to their store.  We can't wait to see what you create!

If you're needing an image to play along check out Bugaboo's selection of terrific digis. There are many pages to choose from.

 

This week I have a couple of ladies joining me to provide you with more inspiration. My guest designer is Jessi from OneCraftyMama, she always comes up with fun and creative ideas and I enjoy her work. I'm also excited to announce that Erin at Erin's Owl Nest has agreed to be part of the design team for my challenges. Thanks to both of these ladies for helping me out!!!

 

Inspirational designs:

 

Erin's Card using Silhouette - Pumpkin

 

Andrea's Card using Owl

 

 

Jessi's Card using Little Penguin Winter - Reindeer

 

 

Challenge Guidelines:

1. Create a New card using the challenge theme, no linking to old posts. 
2. Only one entry per blog address.
3. This is a card only challenge.
4. You must use a stamp, either rubber or digital.
5. You can combine this challenge with other challenges.
6. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to this challenge. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission.
7. All brands of stamping products are welcome.
8. HAVE FUN!!!

Entries not meeting the challenge theme and guidelines will be removed. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding.

 

The challenge will run for 12 days, 10/25/2013 - 11/5/2013.